St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-12
FACTS FROM FARGO.
what the People of DakOta,s Me.
trOp0lis Are Doing.

Special Correspondence of the Globe
FARGO. March 10.-If not entirely happy,
Fargo will feel quite cheerful over the ex-
pendlture of $4,000 this year as start to-
ward an agricultural college, if not vetoed by
the governor. "A public meeting and strong
effort Will soon be had to give the Congrega-
tionnl college q definite location. :. Something
has given the jobbing and commission bust
ness in Fargo lively impulse of late. One
or two new houses have been opened, and
the older ones claim to be doing two Or three
times as much business as ever before. 80.
The supper and festival given by the Y. NJ.
c. A, at its edihce Monday night, was mu-
sically, socially and financially IL great sue
cess. The prevailing excitement is the Sal
walton band campaign, which fills the rink
every night, sometimes continuing past mid
night "A local praying band" has been Or
ganiZed, and its details are seen in all direc-
tions entering all sorts of public, unwonted
places and laboring with the workers of evil.
Ii is claimed that several vicious women, as
well as men given to gambling, profanity and
drunkenness, have been reclaimed. About
the only places they have not visited are the
gambling houses and the police courts .
The formal dedication of the edifice of the
Y. NJ. c. A. is set for next Tuesday. An
elaborate programme Is being arranged. %.
Letters have been received from members Of
the quartette of Fargo citizens who left for
Honduras early in February, They are To-
Gated at place called Danto, in the Truxilo
region; thermometer from so to see, but
pleasant breezes from mountain and sea, and
are securing land to grow fruits. They have
house in the midst of a cocoanut grove, and
have learned that, unlike in Dakota, bananas
do not grow on trees. The people there are
pleasant, but can't understand United States,
and some OF the young females shock the
modest Dakotians by their scanty attire, espe-
cialy when bathing; but they are pleased
with the country and expect 70 do well. -.
The Young Mems Independent club had an
other meeting Thursday night and resolved to
carry the banner of reform into the municipal
election, the throes of which are already felt
The indications are that the revolu-
ton that swept the county in No
vember will take the city In April,
if managed with prudence and vigcr..
a syndicate OF capitalists, compriSing.M NJ. w.
McCrow. G. J. Kissner II. F. Miller and ]. E.
Greene, has lately been organized as 1.-The
Dakota Improvement Company" with capt.
tai of S150,000 to construct and operate
warehouses, public halls elevators and
hotels" but filed their articles in Minnesota
and make Moorhead the principal place of
business" 1t is not claimed that there is any
intention to build out of the territory or
Fargo, and it is believed the immediate object
is to secure the erection of Il hotel and per-
haps an opera house block this season. The
reason for incorporating in Minnesota is said
TO be that the laws in TINT state make the
stockholders only liable for double their
stock, while in Dakota they are individually
liable for the entire amount of debts. :. The
bonus for the new south side hotel has
reached nearly $4,000. and its friends are
confident the $4,000 will be secured and the
needed edtice built on the old Sherman house
site. The toboggan slides have been forced
to close Oh account Of the melting of the ice.
1.-The members Of the Dakota rifles were
for day two in a fever of enthusiasm
over the prospect of trip to the Turtle
mountains, and picnic in quellng the little
handful of ignorant half-brecds, but their
hopes were bghted.